Perez hoping for change of luck in Barcelona

Sergio Perez says he hopes his string of bad luck will come to an end in the Spanish Grand Prix next week.

The Sauber driver said: “I have been quite unlucky in the previous races and I really have the feeling the Spanish Grand Prix is when this will change.

“I strongly believe I will score points there. I am very motivated and I like the Barcelona circuit a lot. Also I always did well there.

“In Turkey we weren?óÔé¼Ôäót able to show our potential and I hope this changes in Spain and, to begin with, we are better in qualifying. We will bring an update for the car and I trust it will meet our expectations.”

Perez was disqualified from seventh place on his Grand Prix debut due to a technical infringement.

He picked up two drive-through penalties in China and hit Pastor Maldonado on the first lap in Istanbul, damaging his front wing.

Technical director James Key said Sauber are bringing a large packages of updates to Barcelona:

?óÔé¼?ôWe?óÔé¼Ôäóll have a new, quite significant aero package on the car, which will be a completely new front wing, updates to the front and rear brake ducts, new bodywork, new devices around the floor leading edge and under the chassis, and we?óÔé¼Ôäóll be testing the new exhaust system again.

“We?óÔé¼Ôäóll also be continuing our work on the mechanical update we had in Istanbul, which proved to be positive. So it will be interesting to see how this works.

“If it works well it should give us a good few tenths of a second improvement in lap time. Our goal is to continue our good race form, to try to improve qualifying and finish as high in the points as possible.”

25 comments on “Perez hoping for change of luck in Barcelona”

I think the verdict is still out on Perez. I want him to succeed – I really do – but I’m having a hard time of justifying it. It’s easy to put on the rose-tinted glasses after Melbourne, but he had a scrappy race in China and didn’t really threaten anyone in Turkey. And Malaysia can’t really be judged because he retired early.

After Melbourne, people were already linking him to Ferrari and so on, so maybe he got caught up in the hype.

Beautifully said Ed (hey that rhymes!), unfortunately though the masses want results and we want them now.

I do hope Perez gets the results, I thought it was amazing how he kept his tyres alive during the Aussie GP, more so after when during BBC’s F1 forum he detailed that he had 4 hundreds of a second to spare but didn’t risk it to destroy his race…. in other words, telemetry says he could have gone faster.

Kobayashi didn’t even finish the first 4 races last season with his longest completed distance being 11 laps and look how much love he gets from the fans today. Its waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to early to make a fair evaluation but he has looked like the best rookie so far.

It’s funny to see how the talk on Perez has quietened down since Melbourne. I think he drove a great race there, but China was pretty poor, but then he is a young driver with little experience. It’s good to see he is an aggressive driver as they are always interesting to watch.

I really hope Sauber can continue pushing development and give Koabayashi a solid points scoring car. His performance in Turkey was a little flattered by his fresh tyres but I still think they could be up there in the lower end of the points in Barcelona

I hope Perez does do well this year. His one stop strategy in Melbourne was inspiring! Such a shame both Sauber’s got disqualified, otherwise he would have been best of the rookie debuts. I hope he can improve over the season and show his true potential, as he could have a bright future ahead of him with his links to Ferrari.

Not sure about luck, always sounds poor when a sportsman refers to luck as an influence. But I do like what I’ve seen so far, there have been mistakes but I think at the moment it’s more positive. He needs to act on his limited experience and learn early on if he’s to make the most of this opportunity, the Sauber looks a reasonable car and this looks like a good chance to prove himself this year.

Hopefully Perez’s luck improves. He was great in Australia, judging by the fact that he was battling Di Resta in Malaysia before his retirement he could have scored then. He’s quick, he just needs to be more consistant.

I think most starters outside the top ten have/should have a fresh set of tyres, in any case he was lauded for a one stop race that day and not three, like Webber, hence a one stopper on the new Pirellis is dubbed a Perez…